Letter: Priorities are twisted

Have you noticed all the TV ads showing abused and abandoned dogs and cats? Cruelty to animals is inhumane and should not be tolerated. All life is God-given and precious.

But 120 miles south on Interstate 27, at the Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Lubbock, nothing is ever mentioned or shown about those who are murdered every week. If America could see the holocaust that is happening in our backyard, there would be such an outcry that this carnage would end overnight.

Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it is right. The greatest example of this injustice is that our taxes are paying for these abortions. How many lives of those who could have found cures for dreaded diseases have been snuffed out?

May God forgive us as a nation for allowing our society to be more concerned about dogs and cats than our own brothers and sisters.

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"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." So here are the facts: Planned Parenthood in Lubbock does provide abortion services. On a national basis, Medicaid is only required to cover abortion in cases of rape, incest, or life endangerment. Individual states can make aditional provisions if they want to; Texas does not.

As we all remember, in February 2012 Texas passed a law excluding Planned Parenthood (and any other abortion provider) from receiving state Medicaid funds even for non-abortion services orfrom participating in the Women's Health Program, as well as imposing a bunch of fun requirements like a mandatory vaginal sonogram with show-and-tell for the pregnant woman, playing a recording of the fetal heart sounds and a longer waiting period between signing up for an abortion and receiving it.

So here's the fact: when Ronnie Hoelting says, " The greatest example of this injustice is that our taxes are paying for these abortions," that is simply untrue. You are certainly entitled to oppose abortions for a wide variety of reasons, but your tax dollars aren't buying any.

"Planned Parenthood Abortion Mill" Those words are calculated to raise the blood pressure of all the haters.
Planned Parenthood does not, and never has, perform abortions. If a woman goes to them complaining of an unplanned, unwanted pregnancy, P.P. refers her to an abortion clinic where she must go through all sorts of humiliating procedures before getting the desired deed done.
If the hate spreaders cared one iota about the child after it is born as they do while it is 'in utero' there might not be as many unplanned pregnancies.

that the same people that don't think twice about killing their own baby will raise holy heck if you disturb a turtle or owl egg,and claim it is a "defenseless creature" while totally ignoring how defenseless that baby human was.

James Madison, "Father of the Constitution" and chief author (1794): ""I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

bill, the fact remains that Planned Parenthood is the largest single provider of abortion (baby murder) services in the USA. And it does perform abortions at some of its clinics (officially).

Bubba_Billybob, PP gets federal funds for many services, INCLUDING ABORTIONS. and since all their funding goes into one big pile, any funds they receive can be used to pay for abortions. OUR TAXES do pay for the murder of innocent children by means that would be banned if they were used on convicted murderers because of their cruel and unusual nature.